Saturday, August 06, 2005
Memo to Self
1400 hrs, Friday
Having pretended that I *have* burnt The Catskill Collection for U-know-who, I had better now *do* it, or I know what'll happen: I'll roll up to the Bagel this evening **without** the wretched disk and be totally busted and be sent packing in embarrassed tears. Post-script: Well, I *did* burn the album and placed it in a fool-proof prominent spot by the door where even I couldn't miss it as I left for BagBeans. So what happens? I'm so on time and in control, I efficiently pile everything I need on the dining table First person I see as I pull up outside Bagels? Yep, Tu-Sais-Qui. I have no alternative but to drive home and retrieve the thrice accursèd recording. An emptyish evening with few musicians and a skeleton audience which seemed to translate into skeleton repertoires as none of us could really think of what to play. My own exhumations included Karmic humiliation note, sub-section "Filibuster" As if I hadn't made sufficient fool of myself, the question of the derivation of "filibuster" came up, to which I confidently spouted that it owed its name to a long-winded politician (Phil E. Buster, perchance?). I couldn't have been more wrong and *that* would have been a good time to make my tearful exit .... For the rest of you: Senate rules contain no motion to force a vote. A vote occurs only once debate ends. The term comes from the early 19th century Spanish and Portuguese pirates, "filibusteros", who held ships hostage for ransom.
What's the one thing I walk out without? Correct - the CD. Like *when* do I ever go to play guitar carrying a CD? Quite. So I just brushed it aside as not belonging to the rest of the stuff and off I drove."Filibuster is the term used for an extended debate in the Senate which has the effect of preventing a vote.
So now you know ...
I would have bet on Philip E. Buster myself. Stranger things have happened...